Huey v. Starr’s Empirical Analysis
1909
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently November 1956
8 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Henry v. McKittrick
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The court erred in holding that the correct practice in such cases is for the plaintiff to elect before beginning the trial whether he will proceed for specific performance or for damages. On the other hand, it is well recognized that in such a case the plaintiff has a right to the decision of the court upon his claim for specific performance, and if he fail to obtain that relief he may then press his claim for damages. (See Henry v. McKittrick, supra, and cases there cited.)” (p. 787.) (Italics inserted.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Nelson v. Schippel
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.